India, May 5 -- India will soon get going on plans to create nearly 12 giga watts (GW) of additional hydropower from new projects on the Indus rivers, for which feasibility studies have been ordered, two people aware of the matter said.

Ongoing projects on the river system will add about 2.5 GW, but construction of these hydropower plants has been hobbled by "constraints and unfavourable terms" of the now-paused Indus water treaty, an official said.

Authorities in the Jal Shakti ministry and the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation are working to expedite all projects under construction, following a high-level meet chaired by Union home minister Amit Shah on April 25, the official added.

The country suspended the six-decade-old Ind...